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"Our Center has provided me top notch instruction. My saxophone teacher, Philip Greenleaf, is an amazing saxophone player, one of the best I have ever seen. He's just helpful and, I can't explain it, the stuff he shows me is something I would never get if I was just trying to play my instrument in the school's concert band, or the school's symphonic band, or even the school's jazz band.

"And Ravi, Ravi Abcarian, the jazz collective teacher, he and Achyutan, the drum instructor, they teach us all over, they show us our jazz standards, our jazz scales, what it is like to be a professional muscician.

 
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"These guys aren't like school teachers, who teach five days of the week and then go home on the weekend. They’re real jazz musicans who still go out and play gigs and then tell you what the industry standards for pay are, and they teach us these life lessons it takes to make it in the business that we are all interested in.

   
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"I feel art is enough to elicit change anywhere, because art is an embodiment of what you feel inside, and if you had a release for what you feel, if you had a release for the frustration and anger you might have pent up besides violence, and you express it in an artistic way, I think the violence and negativity of Richmond would change, and it would be known as a more creative city, known for its creativity instead of its murder rate.

   
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MEET THE CREATOR

 

 

daniel h.

daniel

Disciplines

Alto Saxophone

Steel Pan

Jazz Theory

Spoken Word


Center Companies

The Richmond Jazz
Collective


The Richmond Bloco
Steel Band



Principal Mentors

Philip Greenleaf
Saxophone

Matthew Goodheart
Theory/Musicianship

Ravi Abcarian
Jazz Ensemble Director/
Jazz Theory


Achyutan
Jazz Ensemble Coach

Anthony "Cannon"
Hernandez

Steel Pan